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Brood Quotes

Thoughts that linger and grow.

These brood quotes touch on grief we can't let go of, the habit of dwelling on what troubles us, and the family a person raises. Readers may also like our Chance quotes page.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Abraham Lincoln

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

Quotes by Washington Irving

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

Quotes by Richard Ford

There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing...

Quotes by Randeep Hooda

About Quotes

I have already done two Christmas films: 'Elf' and 'Four Christmases.' I guess I really am a sucker for Christmas. Both movies are really about the importance of family. I come from a brood of five kids, and it's the...

Quotes by Peter Billingsley

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Quotes by Mary Renault

The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and race them. The good ones, the ones that show potentialities, you keep, and the others...

Quotes by Larry MacPhail

The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be...

Quotes by Larry MacPhail

I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen.

Quotes by Jon Hamm

Age Quotes

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Quotes by James Black

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also...

Quotes by Garry Trudeau

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

Quotes by Dave Davies

Frequently Asked Questions

What does "brood" mean in these quotes?
It covers both dwelling repeatedly on sorrow or resentment, and the more literal sense of a family or children raised by a parent.
Why do some brood quotes focus on grief?
One reflects on how the sorrow of losing someone is the one sorrow people refuse to let go of, unlike other wounds we try to heal.
Is brooding always seen negatively?
Not entirely - while it's linked to sullenness in one quote, another treats brooding on love or hatred as something that shapes the soul over time.
Does "brood" ever refer to family life?
Yes, one quote describes a father's brood, his children, benefiting from his lifelong love of singing and music.
What other topics connect well with brood quotes?
Readers exploring similar themes might check Chance quotes or Age quotes for related reflections on time and circumstance.

Brooding isn't always negative - sometimes it's just a family's shared inheritance of love and music. Browse more in Age quotes and About quotes.